The lyrics seem random but in truth there are very few things that don't remind us of something.
The sing-song tone of this reflects a childlike idealism---he is desiring complete childlike simplicity, or a desire to go back to a time before the shit went down. I think it is this tone that makes the song so wrenching.
The interlude/bridge lyrics refer to an idealized relationship---if-we-never-mention it-maybe-it-never-happened sort of thing. Again, a childlike and very unrealistic desire. I believe the speaker knows he can never have any of this, and the result of trying to repress everything becomes clear in the guitar explosion right after the bridge.
The end of the song returns to the sing-songy, yearning tone of the earlier verses, and it feels like he is trying hard to believe in his delusion of "everything will be okay now, we just have to agree to forget." Kind of ominous....if his partner does remind him of something, does that mean the end? I think it does.
The lyrics seem random but in truth there are very few things that don't remind us of something.
The sing-song tone of this reflects a childlike idealism---he is desiring complete childlike simplicity, or a desire to go back to a time before the shit went down. I think it is this tone that makes the song so wrenching.
The interlude/bridge lyrics refer to an idealized relationship---if-we-never-mention it-maybe-it-never-happened sort of thing. Again, a childlike and very unrealistic desire. I believe the speaker knows he can never have any of this, and the result of trying to repress everything becomes clear in the guitar explosion right after the bridge.
The end of the song returns to the sing-songy, yearning tone of the earlier verses, and it feels like he is trying hard to believe in his delusion of "everything will be okay now, we just have to agree to forget." Kind of ominous....if his partner does remind him of something, does that mean the end? I think it does.